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- .th SLEEP I 11/1/73
- .sh NAME
- sleep \*- suspend execution for an interval
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd sleep
- time
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Sleep
- suspends execution for
- .it time
- seconds.
- It is used to execute a command
- in a certain amount of time as in:
- .s3
- (sleep 105; command)&
- .s3
- Or to execute a command every so often as in
- this shell command file:
- .s3
- : loop
- .br
- command
- .br
- sleep 37
- .br
- goto loop
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- sleep (II)
- .sh BUGS
- .it Time
- must be less than 65536 seconds.
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